in the home stretch!

I'm looking down the slippery slope of a fully scheduled January, so it was fairly important to get this autumn quilt finished before the end of the month. My initial goal of finishing in November flew by with an exhilirating rush that almost made me forget my sprained ankle, but the year-end deadline is much more ominous and imposing.

Almost finished, at last:
She still needs a trip through the washer and spin dryer, but here she is in all her bold colour-blocked glory. I'm so taken with this block pattern I am going to make one of my own next!

Stitching along

Look familiar?

Yup, the quilting is more than half done on my current legacy quilt project. I'm very tickled with how it's turned out so far.

quilting in progress

My new-to-me quilt top is chugging right along. Some of the seam allowances were more than slightly varied, so laying flat is not really an option, but it's still coming together quite well:
And here's the quilting on the back starting to come together:

This last image shows a close-up of the base quilting - with stitches on either side of the muslin center blocks and along the seams where the finished blocks meet.

A New (to me) quilt to finish!

One of the really great things I get to do is finish quilts for other artists. I really enjoy the mechanics of quilting (even if it does give me vulture shoulders) and find it refreshing to work on a quilt I haven't known for weeks (or months). This latest top belongs to a man who inherited it from his mother when she passed. I love that he's having it finished for her as much as I love the pattern:
It may be a few decades old but it has a bold graphic design that's just right for a modern home. At 74" x 92" it's a perfect size for the twin bed in the guest room, a generous sofa throw for two or to lay width-wise across the foot of a king-sized bed.

This last image is just a little brighter than real life, since those center logs (on the diagonal) are actually an unbleached muslin. For the first time in weeks the sun was blaring her brightest this afternoon and I was not about to say anything rude that might send her back into hiding. It will be finished with an unbleached muslin backing and cotton batting and quilted in a neutral cotton thread, in the ditch along all seam lines.